Kode Vicious

#C64 production line Germany. 1980 something

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I’ve already got a piece coming out about the Facebook fail but then we had aws and now log4j. All the same problem. Nobody knows what they’re true dependencies are.

It is a strange world when a reader says they like KV because it reminds them of “Alexander McCall Smith, Sophie Hannah, or Somerset Maugham” but I’ll take all the compliments I can get. I somehow doubt Maugham abused his readers, or the language, as much as I do.

I hear other peoples’ computers are down again. /me makes popcorn

“Yes but you glare like brandishing a 9mm.” Best compliment I’ve gotten in a while.

@aprilwright The very definition of security theater.

You can bring filled cannolis through TSA, but not cannoli shells plus filling in a bag #securitytheater Also ofc this happened in Boston lmao

@TinkerSec This is the root of the word Priapism. Why are you surprised at all?

@TheSweetKat s/not//and

A new paper by my colleagues and I on the security risks of “client-side scanning” architectures.

@mattblaze @evacide National Brotherhood Week…

@evacide If there’s a problem that can’t be solved with an awareness month, I don’t want to know what it is.

.@kode_vicious discusses the virtue and vice of bisection, in the latest issue of @CACMmag bit.ly/3AWABxv

Kode Vicious: Patent Absurdity: If you run afoul of a patent and it can be shown that you had knowledge of it, your company will incur triple the damages that they would have, had you not had knowledge of the patent. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… @kode_vicious

Yes! Review of The Kollected Kode Vicious from the folks at the ACCU accu.org/bookreviews/20…

@BeeSting14618 @mwlauthor I wish I’d written this.

mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my… Not a single lie detected.

@bsdphk @freebsdjournal @kode_vicious Not at all! He's why this silly thing started. Column 1. freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/upl…

The new @freebsdjournal also features my regular Letters column, wherein I finally chew out @kode_vicious for throwing me under this particular bus.

@mwlauthor You may then enjoy Hail Mary which is his latest.

My favorite recent hard SF novel? The Martian. It shows you need knowledge, individualism, and can-do spirit. It also shows you need community. You need both to survive.

"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." — Brian W. Kernighan